Persecution Wanes/Banning Blood Garners Publicity

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  compound complex

  Sheer Madness --- Perpetuated by Two Madmen Who Prevailed Over the Judge [Almost]

  "After the Judge's death, as World War II was ending and persecution against the Witnesses began declining, along with the attendant drop in news-media publicity, Hayden C. Covington told the author [of THE FOUR PRESIDENTS] that Fred Franz saw the prohibition against blood transfusions as a way to accomplish two things: to continue to publicize the religion, and to create an uproar in the community. This reaction would convince the membership they were being "persecuted" and "suffering for righteousness sake," a sure sign they were "in the truth."

  According to Jerry Bergman, author of BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS: A HISTORY AND EVALUATION OF THE RELIGIOUS, BIBLICAL, AND MEDICAL OBJECTIONS, 1994, p. 5:

  "The blood issue has brought witnesses more publicity than any other issue in the last twenty years."

  "The ban on blood transfusions was an effort to solidify the Knorr administration." [Knorr initially objected to the weird scriptural interpretation justifying the abstaining from blood; he understood the scriptures to be in reference to animal blood only. Nevertheless, he went along with the ban.]

  "Key Watchtower officers held a view of distrust toward the medical profession."

  "Some high level Watchtower official naively reasoned that, if eating blood was wrong, blood transfusions were also wrong because they are 'intravenous' feeding as opposed to extravenous feeding, or normal eating."

  While Rutherford swallowed some irrational rantings by Franz and Woodworth over the beginnings of the blood issue, he would not allow publication of FWF's "special knowledge" as "new light" in THE WATCHTOWER. The two mischief makers kept things stirred up and began convincing others, including Knorr. The author was told that now that "King Saul" [FWF] is dead, the leadership would like blood transfusions to be a matter of conscience and lay the blame for all the suffering at the feet of Franz and Woodworth.

  Does tacit approval on the part of the Governing Body constitute blood-guilt?

  THE FOUR PRESIDENTS OF THE WATCHTOWER SOCIETY (JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES), Edmond C. Gruss, Editor, pp.74, 75, 231

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  Rabbit

  Fred Franz saw the prohibition against blood transfusions as a way to accomplish two things: to continue to publicize the religion, and to create an uproar in the community. This reaction would convince the membership they were being "persecuted" and "suffering for righteousness sake," a sure sign they were "in the truth."

  I'm speechless...
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  compound complex

  Greetings Rabbit,

  I too was speechless! There's more, always more:

  "When faced with mounting opposition, Fred Franz eased the Society's position on blood regarding the following: (1) Serum injections such as diphtheria toxin antitoxin and gamma globulin blood fractions were permitted. (2) There was no need to drain blood from fish (except when "a person sees an accumulation of blood"), only land animals. (3) While a Witness could not personally use fertilizer using blood, he could use it when employed by a non-witness. This and similar situations were made matters of conscience. (4) Over the years, the Watch Tower Society had taken the position of prohibiting the use of blood fractions in the treatment of hemophiliacs. But long before officially leaving this stringent position, if one were to call the headquarters they would be told that such treatment was permissible. Years later, in the June 15, 1978 WATCHTOWER, the "oracle" decided the pressure was getting too severe, so he withdrew his position altogether, and permitted both hemophiliac preparations Factor VIII and IX. How many hemophiliacs died in the interim, further sacrifices on the altar of man-made Watch Tower dogma?"

  THE FOUR PRESIDENTS, E. C. Gruss, Ed. p. 77

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  Gill

  So CoCo, what is really being said is that the R and F JWs have been dying in their thousands, and more like hundreds of thousands since the ban came in, as a sort of advertising stunt for the WTBTS!!

  How sick!

  Time that someone made the buggers pay for this wholesale slaughter!
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  avidbiblereader

  Good research and info CoCo, that is why I am glad that I don't teach and pray that God forgives me for any and all the damage I did as an elder

  Amplified Trans James 3:1

  1 NOT MANY [of you] should become teachers ( [ a ] self-constituted censors and reprovers of others), my brethren, for you know that we [teachers] will be judged by a higher standard and with greater severity [than other people; thus we assume the greater accountability and the more condemnation].

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  abbagail

  [...]
  Fred Franz saw the prohibition against blood transfusions as a way to accomplish two things: to continue to publicize the religion, and to create an uproar in the community. This reaction would convince the membership they were being "persecuted" and "suffering for righteousness sake," a sure sign they were "in the truth."
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  It sounds like the perfect outworking of the "Dialectic Struggle" as used by the WT's counterparts, the "real" New World Order. That is, THEY "create the problem" and then THEY "provide the solution." Like so:
  
  Freddie creates uproar in community via blood transfusions...
  
  New World Order creates uproar in country via "staged-managed terrorism"...
  
  Freddie "provides the solution" for the JWs: "You are being persecuted for righteousness sake" [so-called fulfillment of prophecy which keeps JWs brainwashed - which is their real goal]...
  
  New World Order creates more and more laws to provide a so-called [false sense of] "Peace and Security" for Americans [but said laws take away more and more personal freedoms and privacy - which is THEIR real goal]...
  
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  See how it works? They create the problem; then provide the solution. That way they can play both sides of the fence, always keeping control of every situation, to further their own perverse goals of power and control.
  
  And I've read first-person testimony that the Mormons and the WT orgs both consulted with the Illuminati in the 1950s, so maybe that's where Freddie Franz learned a few of these "control tactics"...
  
  After all, they DID start working on the "NEW WORLD" translation in the 1950s didn't they? And the "translators" were "anonymous." And look at the TITLE they chose for their "Bible." It has "antichrist kingdom" written all over it.
  
  Thanks CoCo - great info!
  /abbagail
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  Forscher

  Why am I not surprised?

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  compound complex

  I thank all of you for you replies and additional information; nothing is a surprise any more. If only those still entrapped could see the real foundation of this killer policy!

  CoCo